Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Japanese Whaling Fleet Kills Twitter Fail Whale

By Phil Buckridge • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: World

San Francisco, CA – Social networking and micro-blogging giant Twitter was dealt a major blow today when their iconic and often used “fail whale”, which alerted Twitter users of temporary outages, was caught and killed by a Japanese whaling ship off the coast of Antarctica.


Twitter to Start Closing Accounts That Use Poor Grammar

By Phil Buckridge • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Local News

San Francisco, CA – Less than a week after purging a large number of spam accounts, Twitter has now set its sights on the English language, as they announced that effective next week, they will begin deactivating accounts that use poor grammar.